Frank Fear

Frank A. Fear is professor emeritus, Michigan State University, where he served as a faculty member for thirty-year years and worked in various administrative positions for nearly twenty years. Find him on Twitter @frankfear and on Tumblr, “For the Public Good,” at https://frankfearblog.tumblr.com/ Frank also writes about issues that intersect sport and society. You can read him at The Sports Column at https://www.thesportscol.com/category/frank-fear/

Frank Fear: You’ve experienced ‘it’ – the neoliberal turn of America’s social institutions—the unrelenting mission of steering America’s social institutions from Progressive to Neoliberal, that is, from serving the public good to optimizing self-serving benefits.

Frank Fear: Over the years I didn’t spend much time thinking about what had happened to me. But like a recurring nightmare, others’ stories never, ever went away. Here and abroad. Church cover-up. Over and over again.

Frank Fear: I do question is why the Dems are celebrating her victory in NY’s 14th as theirs. Yes, Ocasio-Cortez ran as a Democrat but, to her core, she’s a Democratic Socialist. It’s best not to conflate the two.

The Middle East

David A. Love: Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs works with front groups such as the Israel Project and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) to spy on US citizens who support Palestinian rights and smear them as anti-Semites, in a covert campaign that smacks of McCarthyism and Islamophobia.